Quotes About Discontent

It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know.

He hadn't complained to anybody. Even Madame Maigret didn't know why he had fallen into disgrace and been transferred to Luçon. This was the hidden face of the profession, of no concern to those outside.

Why don't you come with me? Why? Where are you going? Home. I've had enough. I hate England. Hate England? It was too much to grasp, with a head full of searing headache.

In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority.

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

I think Donald Trump tapped into something where folks didn't think the economy and the political system was working for them.

I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.

I had the one goal to become world champion for so long and now that I've achieved it, I thought that it was the top of the mountain. But now that I'm up there, it's not.

I'm tired of playing the brat.

Like so many Americans, I am sick and tired of watching the rapid decline of our culture right in front of our eyes.

There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.

As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars.

She didn't sound overjoyed. She didn't sound even slightly joyed.

She hadn't lived in the moment because she hadn't liked the moment she was living in.

Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own experience to a new way. A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives -- agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate.

I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.

preventing riots depends less on reducing average levels of discontent than on appeasing people at the extreme.

Life's a drag. There is no gravity. Earth Sucks!

Give us redemptive discontent until our hearts rest again in you.

When God blesses our hearts with boredom, discontent, anxiety, emptiness, or restlessness, he loves us well. For his goal is to wean our wayward hearts away from things that hold no ultimate satisfaction.

Time and time again I can't please myself.

People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.